Moss Plants and More

Both bryophytes and ferns have reproductive systems with flagellated, motile sperm. In order for sexual reproduction (fertilization) to occ...

Have you ever heard of a blog carnival? Despite the fact that I spent an entire semester in a seminar discussing blogging it never came up ...

We are preparing to leave La Selva and head back to San Jose, before returning to the states. This morning the class talked about online res...

I saw this ant hanging off the end of a liverwort yesterday and just had to take a photo. She seemed pretty confused and was not sure how to...

I have seen a ton of epiphyllous bryophytes while in Costa Rica. These are mosses or liverworts (I don't think that there are any epiphy...

This is a small moss that I found growing on some soil. It has a distichous leaf arrangement, meaning that the leaves are coming out of the ...

While looking for fern gametophytes I could not help but notice this really cool moss peristome. For a review of peristome teeth check out t...

We spent an afternoon digging through moss mats looking for fern gametophytes. The main body that you would typically call a fern (the large...

I have arrived safely in Costa Rica and am in the throes of a throughly fun and intensive fern field course. We are currently at the Organi...

I am going out of the country for the next couple of weeks to Costa Rica. I am taking a field course on Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes throug...

I have had a number of people ask me what field guides are available to learn the local mosses in their area. Ideally there would be a comm...

As I mentioned earlier , Sphagnum is a very useful moss. (Pictured here is Sphagnum centrale .) It was used during World War I and II to d...